We are delighted to announce that in 2025 we will be publishing an illustrated, limited edition of this seminal collection of Strange Stories by Robert Aickman. Work will start later this year.
Originally published in 1975, 'Cold Hand in Mine' collects eight exceptional short stories:
The Swords
The Real Road to the Church
Niemandswassder
Pages from a Young Girls Journal
The Hospice
The Same Dog
Meeting Mr Millar
The Clock Watcher
Aickman is widely considered amongst aficionados of horror fiction to be one of the true masters of the weird tale, the term 'Aickmanesque' is applied to work clearly influenced by him, and yet there is nothing that has been written before or after, that inhabits the unique, inner room of whispering unease that Aickman does. His uncanny subtlety as an author of weird tales inhabits the ambiguous spaces between what is real and unreal, a freudian, psychological land of dreams and nightmares, which resonates all the more profoundly the longer you are willing to stay.
"Aickman's characters find themselves trapped in a series of events unconnected by logic, or which are connected by nonlinear logic. Very often neither the characters nor the reader can be certain about exactly what has happened, yet the story has the satisfying rightness of a poem-a John Ashbery poem. Every detail is echoed or commented upon, nothing is random or wasted. The reader has followed the characters into a world which is remorseless, vast and inexorable in it's operations'' - Peter Straub
"The best, the subtlest and creepiest author of ghost stories of his time.' - Kim Newman
"Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician at work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' - Neil Gaiman
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